International News

Bloomberg India’s largest listed property developer expects many of its smaller peers to go belly-up as creditors cut financing after a shock default. “Weaker balance sheets are going to fall off, while large listed developers will get though current liquidity crisis,” Saurabh Chawla, outgoing chief financial officer of DLF Ltd., said. Smaller developers have already been struggling amid a slump ...

Bloomberg China plans to give foreign companies greater access to its economy and is drafting a replacement of its plan to dominate advanced technologies by 2025, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources briefed on the strategy. Beijing’s changes would come in response to pressure from US President Donald Trump, who launched a tit-for-tat tariff dispute with China this year ...

Bloomberg Forty years ago, 18 villagers of Xiaogang in Anhui Province banded together to disobey the orders of China’s government, risking their lives by deciding to farm individually instead of collectively. Now, they’re celebrated as the pioneers of Reform and Opening Up — the process of turning China into a market-based economy that celebrates its 40th anniversary this week. As ...

Bloomberg Envoys at a United Nations conference adopted a set of steps on fighting climate change meant to guide efforts to rein in greenhouse gas pollution worldwide. The diplomats drawn from energy and environment ministries in almost 200 countries backed rules to implement the three-year-old Paris Agreement, which called for drastic reductions in the use of fossil fuels by the ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc fell with shares on course to close at their lowest level since April, as more analysts joined the chorus of bears and skeptics warning about the prospects for iPhone sales. The stock dropped as much as 2.9 percent, and shares are on track for their 10th negative week of the past 11. At current levels, Apple is ...

Bloomberg A borrowing spree by the Canadian federal and provincial governments is threatening to increase costs for companies just as the economy turns, according to BlackRock Inc. Public-sector borrowing is set to swell as issuers including the federal government, Ontario — already the world’s largest issuer of sub-sovereign debt — and Alberta continue to run budget deficits, BlackRock’s head of ...

Bloomberg PG&E Corp, already under scrutiny for a deadly California wildfire last month, now faces potential penalties for allegedly breaking natural gas pipeline safety rules and falsifying records, state regulators said. The California Public Utilities Commission said that the state’s biggest utility owner systematically violated rules to prevent construction crews from accidentally damaging pipelines during excavations. PG&E also allegedly falsified ...

Bloomberg Healthcare investors may have to be a bit more selective than they’re used to in 2019. With US health stocks poised to wrap up their second straight year of outperforming the broader market, the focus on hunting for innovation and next year’s winners is even more in vogue after recent market volatility. Small- to mid-cap biotechnology darlings that saw ...

Bloomberg Apple Inc. says a Chinese ban on sales of the iPhone will force it to settle a long and bitter licensing battle with Qualcomm Inc., an outcome that may end up harming the country’s smartphone industry and give its fiercest legal rival a boost. The US company was responding to a Chinese court that ruled this week Apple infringed ...

Bloomberg General Motors faces a “sharp and continued drop in profit” from its GM China joint venture in 2019 and beyond and might consider spinning off the JV, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said in a note. The strategic and financial options available to an automaker like GM in China “likely shrinks as profitability of the JV declines,” Morgan Stanley ...